butcher boy
1
7.8
- noun
- /ˈbʊtʃər bɔɪ/
:
aprendiz de carnicero
Examples
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Thinking about your butcher boy?
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Let's see what the butcher boy wants.
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The young butcher boy carefully weighed the meat for the customers.
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After finishing school, he started working as a butcher boy in his father's shop.
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The butcher boy learned how to prepare different cuts of meat from the experienced staff.
Synonyms
98
1.0
A person who cuts and sells meat
1
2.7
A young man who helps customers in a store
1
2.4
A person who slices and trims meat for sale in shops
1
6.8
A man who sells meat in a shop or at a market
A person who cuts and sells pork like bacon and sausages
How Experienced
98
1.0
1
7.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a young male who works in a butcher's shop' is directly compositional from 'butcher' (worker who prepares meat) + 'boy' (young male), so the overall sense is easily derived from the parts. This agent+person compound follows a common, productive English pattern (and similar constructions exist cross-linguistically), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Butcher boy comes from the simple picture of a young boy working for a butcher, doing small tasks like wrapping and cutting meat while learning the trade. So it means 'a young male who works in a butcher's shop'.